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How authoritarian rulers seek to legitimize repression: framing mass killings in Egypt and Uzbekistan
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Abstract How do authoritarian rulers legitimate repressive actions against their own citizens? Although most research depicts repression and legitimation as opposed strategies of political rule, justified coercion against some groups may generate legitimacy in the eyes of other parts of the population. Build... mehr
How do authoritarian rulers legitimate repressive actions against their own citizens? Although most research depicts repression and legitimation as opposed strategies of political rule, justified coercion against some groups may generate legitimacy in the eyes of other parts of the population. Building upon this suggested link between legitimation and repression, this article studies the justifications of mass killings. To this end, framing theory is combined with recent research on the domestic and international dimensions of authoritarian rule. We contend that frames are directed towards specific audiences at home and abroad. Moreover, given the common threats at the global level and the diffusion of repressive tactics, we assume that learning processes influence discursive justifications of repression in authoritarian regimes. We provide an analysis of government rhetoric by comparing the protest crackdowns of Rabi'a 'Adawiya Square in Egypt and Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan, taking into account the audiences and the sources of the frames that justify repression. In both cases, we find the terrorism frame to emerge as dominant.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Autoritarismus; Repression; Protest; Framing-Ansatz; Legitimation; Politik; Fallstudie; Ägypten; Usbekistan; Terrorismus
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 882-900
Zeitschriftentitel
Democratization, 25 (2018) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1439021
ISSN
1743-890X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)